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New Left Standard is punk/ska band from Arlington Heights, IL that started in 1996 with a few high school friends playing in a basement and overnight turned into something so much more. Formed and sustained with a strong DIY ethic, the band played all over the midwest, selling dubbed cassettes out of the back of their suburban and bought t-shirts at local thrift stores turned them inside out and screened nls logos on them. The band gained a large underground following and by 1999 found... Topic: New Left Standard

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From catalog: The rise and development of the Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that became the major expression of the American left hi the sixties-its passage from student protest to institutional resistance to revolutionary activism, and its ultimate impact on American politics and life. An essential book about the '60's. Interviews, office memos, position papers, research documents, speeches, letters, and now and then, there is pause for laughter. In his history of the... Topics: socialism, New Left, SDS

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From catalog: A gripping account of 1960s radicals who took up arms against the state. The arrest and subsequent imprisonment of Silas Bissell, former heir to the rug-cleaning fortune who was discovered living near Eugene, Oregon, in 1987, drew a line under one of the most spectacular and bizarre episodes in the historv of the American New Left, for it marked the official end of the Weathermen. Product of splits within the antiwar movement during the late 1960s, the Weather Underground would... Topics: communism, New Left, terrorism

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A manifesto from the BLA. Depending on who you ask they were either guerrilla revolutionaries, FBI agents provocateurs, Marxist terrorists, or a gang. You be the judge. Topics: black nationalism, communism, terrorism, New Left

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From Wikipedia:Underground is a 1976 documentary film about the Weathermen, founded as a militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), who fought to overthrow the U.S. government during the 1960s and 1970s. The film consists of interviews with members of the group after they went underground and footage of the anti-war and civil rights protests of the time. It was directed byEmile de Antonio, Haskell Wexler and Mary Lampson, later subpoenaed by theFederal Bureau of... Topics: Weather Underground, Emile De Antonio, New Left, FBI, COINTELPRO

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A panel discussion held on May 29, 2010 at the second Platypus International Convention at SAIC. Panelists: Greg Gabrellas, Pam C. Nogales C., Spencer Leonard The late 1960s and early 1970s witnessed the rise of a new militancy and sectarianism on the Left. Whether in the case of the Black Panthers, the Weather Underground, the Gay Liberation Front, or many other currents on the Left, developments from that time did much to shape the New Leftâs legacy as it comes down to the present. This... Topics: new left, 1960s, marx, marxism, left leftism

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This is the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) main headquarters (HQ) file on its counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO) targeting the New Left from 1968-71. In a 5/10/68 memo, the FBI instructed field offices that "the purpose of this program is to expose, disrupt, and otherwise neutralize the activities of the various New Left organizations, their leadership and adherents." Dozens of additional HQ files from this COINTELPRO, which track HQ communication with specific FBI field... Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO), New Left

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Description: Tom Hayden (1939-), author, lecturer, and a founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), leads a discussion of New Left politics; topics include the Black Panthers, the rent strike movement, and People's Park. The talk was arranged by the Sociology Liberation Movement of the American Sociological Assocation (ASA), and was held on September 2, 1969 at the ASA Convention in the San Francisco Hilton Hotel. Also acting as discussion leaders are Berkeley graduate student Rick... Topics: californialightandsound, Hayden, Tom, Brown, Rick, Gilbert, Bruce, New Left, Political... Source: 1 Tape of 1 : 1/4 inch audio tape

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-A conversation with prominent progressive activist, organizer, and writer Carl Davidson, who was a leader in SDS and a major figure in the 60s New Left. Carl is webmaster at Progressives for Obama (now renamed Progressive America Rising) and is national co-chair of Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. Carl was a national officer of SDS and writer and editor at the Guardian, the preeminent publication of the American left for decades. A long-time resident of Chicago, he now... Topics: Carl Davidson, Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Leftist, Progressives, Writers, SDS, New Left, Sixties,...

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Rick Ayers and Bill Ayers are distinguished academics and educational innovators. Rick was co-founder of the Communication Arts and Sciences (CAS) small school at Berkeley High School in 1997 and was lead teacher until 2006, He is an Adjunct Professor in Education at University of San Francisco and Mills College. William Ayers, formerly Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), was founder of both the Small Schools... Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Rick Ayers, William Ayers, Educational Reform, Activists, Sixties, New...

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-Carl Davidson is a widely known writer and political activist. He is active in the Solidarity Economy Movement and is national co-chair of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), and is webmaster of Progressives for Obama. Carl was a leader of the 60s New Left, a national officer of SDS, and editor of the Guardian. We discuss the World Social Forum movement and the recent U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, a significant and lively event that brought together 15,000... Topics: Rag Radio, Carl Davidson, U.S. Social Forum, SDS, New Left, Socialism, Activists, Solidarity Economy

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This is the first of a two-part conversation with progressive activist Tom Hayden. On this show the emphasis is on SDS, the Port Huron Statement, and the Sixties. (In our second interview -- On Jan. 20, 2012 -- we discuss contemporary American society, foreign policy, and progressive politics. That show can be found here: http://www.archive.org/details/RagRadio2012-01-20-TomHaydenPart2) Tom Hayden was a driving force in the Students for a Democratic Society, the leading organization of the... Topics: Thorne Dreyer, Rag Radio, Tom Hayden, SDS, New Left, Port Huron Statement, Activists

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Chris Cutrone interviewed Tariq Ali for the Platypus Affiliated Society in Chicago on October 15, 2007 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. More information on Platypus available at: http://www.platypus1917.com Topics: Platypus, Marx, Marxism, 1960s, New Left, Socialism, Trotskyism, Iraq, Afghanistan, Christopher...

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-Mariann Wizard and Larry Piltz -- both regular contributors to The Rag Blog -- read and discuss their poetry as well as their personal histories, how they work, and issues involving poetry and social change. Guests:*Mariann Wizard is a political activist, writer -- she writes scientific reviews of natural medicines -- and widely published poet. Mariann was a founder of The Rag in Austin in 1966 and was active in the 60s New Left. *Larry Piltz is a poet and lyricist who lives in a cabin in the... Topic: -Mariann Wizard, Larry Piltz, Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Poetry, Poets, Writers, Activists, The Rag,...

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Sarito Carol Neiman was an editor of the pioneering underground newspaper, The Rag, in 1966 Austin (along with Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer), and later edited New Left Notes, the national newspaper of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). With then-husband Greg Calvert, Neiman co-authored one of the seminal books of the New Left, "A Disrupted History: The New Left and the New Capitalism," published by Random House in 1971. Sarito became a disciple of the mystic Indian guru Bhagwan... Topics: Rag Radio, Sarito Carol Neiman, Thorne Dreyer, New Left, The Rag, SDS, Osho, Bhagwan Shree...

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"The Philosophers are in Istanbul: With the Attendance of Alain Badiou ve Slavoj Zizek, Globalization and New Left - Mondialisation et Nouvelle Gauche - Conference," Istanbul, 11-12 October, 2013 Slavoj Zizek: "Globalization and New Left," Istanbul, 12.Oct. 2013 Slavoj Zizek discusses about the Istanbul Taksim Gezi Park Uprising, the situation in Greece, Egypt, Iran and the new authoritarian police state of the U.S., the new methods of struggle for the Left, the connection... Topics: Slavoj Zizek, Globalization and New Left Conference, Istanbul Taksim Gezi Park Uprising, global...

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The seven young men who became iconic heroes of San Francisco's left and Latino political ferment in the 1970s were eventually acquitted of murder. While the campaign to defend them led to an explosion of social organizing, we know little about how these men's lives developed in the years that followed, losing track of real people in the mists of political legitimacy and hero-worship.Vero Majano takes a look at what happened to Los Siete in the decades since the famous trial, and gives us a... Topics: Los Siete, La Raza, Latino, San Francisco, Mission, 1970s, New Left, brown power, daily life,...

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Judy Gumbo Albert and Nancy Kurshan were original members of the Youth International Party -- the Yippies -- along with their respective partners, Stew Albert and Jerry Rubin, and others like Abbie Hoffman, Anita Hoffman, and Paul Krassner. The Yippies were an anarchist-leaning Sixties group known for their street theater and symbolic political actions that merged New Left and countercultural values. They gained mass exposure through actions like throwing money onto the floor of the New York... Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Judy Gumbo Albert, Nancy Kurshan, Yippies, Sixties, New Left,...

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-A conversation with Jeff Jones. Jones, based in San Francisco and Austin, is a fundraising and planning consultant and grant writer for arts organization. Also an activist in the LGBT/queer community and the movement for social justice, Jeff was co-founder of the Mobilization against AIDS and the Queer Cultural Center in San Francisco. An SDSer in 60s Austin and a staffer at the underground paper The Rag, Jeff was president of the student body at the University of Texas at Austin, 1970-1971.... Topics: Jeff Jones, Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, LGBT, Gay Activists, UT-Austin, New Left, Austin History,...

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Black Politics and State ViolenceThursday, May 21st, 5:00 p.m. in the Ida Noyes LibraryUniversity of ChicagoFeaturing: Michael Dawson and Mel Rothenberg The widely publicized killings of black men by police and the resulting movement with its slogan "Black Lives Matter" put back on the agenda of a beleaguered American Left a seemingly perennial question, one that evokes a long history of struggle, longing, and disappointment. With a black president in the White House having... Topics: politics, black politics, capitalism, black lives matter, neoliberalism, new left, old left,...

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Alice Embree was a leader in the 60s New Left, working in civil rights and with SDS in Austin where she was a founder of the underground newspaper The Rag. She also worked with underground newpaper RAT in New York. A pioneer of the women's liberation movement, her essay was included in Robin Morgan's classic feminist anthology, "Sisterhood is Powerful." Alice went to Chile with an exchange program, and worked with the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), and later was... Topics: The Rag, Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Alice Embree, Feminists, Sixties, Peace Activists, Underground...